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Mary Welstead, CAP Fellow Harvard Law School; Visiting Professor in Family law University of Buckingham In October 2021, the Secretary of State for Justice successfully appealed...
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3 February 2022

Gender identity and family mediation: reflections on trans* and non-binary partners in family mediation
Maria Federica Moscati, Senior Lecturer in Family Law, School of Law, Politics and Sociology – University of SussexThis article considers how to make family mediation more inclusive for...
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3 February 2022

Time to ‘walk the walk’ – supporting separated families
Laura Vickers, Barrister, No 5 ChambersFollowing the President’s recent Address to the Jersey Family Law Conference, barrister and mediator Laura Vickers considers the practical steps those working in...
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3 February 2022

Withholding notice of care proceedings from parents without parental responsibility
Mani Singh Basi, Barrister, 4PBLucy Logan Green, Barrister, 4PBThis article explores the circumstances when notice of care proceedings are withheld to parents who do not have parental...
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3 February 2022

Instructing psychologists in family proceedings: the good, the bad and the unnecessary
Sophie Crampton, 4BCMental health assessments can be very important evidence within family law proceedings, particularly public law proceedings. However, there is a lack of readily available...
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3 February 2022

To err is human – reflections on the Tavistock clinic cases
John Eekelaar, Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College OxfordIn Quincy Bell and Mrs A v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust  and others [2021] EWCA Civ 1363, a former patient who had been...
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1 February 2022

Psychological treatment expertise in care and family proceedings
Prof Daniel T Wilcox, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist; Owner and Director of WPA LtdDr Alan Kessedjian, Registered Clinical Psychologist; WPA Consultant AssociateWithin the context of Court...
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25 January 2022

The statement on the efficient conduct of financial remedy hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge level: A review
In February’s Edition of the Family Law Journal, Claire Athis Schofield and I wrote an article entitled “The Farquhar Committee and the future of the Financial Remedies Court” which set out the...
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20 January 2022

A Psychodynamic Model for Family Mediation
Christine Plews, Partner at The Mediation Space LLP and Consultant at Blake Morgan LLPThis article explores how a psychodynamic approach can help mediation clients and keep them out of the family...
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19 January 2022

‘All judgments are capable of improvement’ – the advocate’s duty to seek further reasons and knowing where to draw the line
Matthew Fiddy, St Ives ChambersThis article examines the duty of advocates to seek further reasons and/or points of clarification following the delivery of a judgment. In particular, the article...
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